Live Webinar March 1st,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Use Cases are a requirements documentation method that is gaining in popularity, particularly when an Agile development methodology is in use. Attend this webinar and see how simple the technique is, and learn the various methods and limitations that help define it.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

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Online Webinar Presented by The Agilista PM
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Agile was once considered a fad by project management professionals.

Every project manager can successfully integrate agile in a waterfall environment to improve project predictability, cost effectiveness and ultimately project and professional success.

In the 10 years since the agile manifesto was written agile has matured; it has moved from being a core methodology and from small software companies to the point where it is used, to some extent, in a majority of enterprise organizations today.

Agile isn’t a silver bullet for every context though and agile methods need to adapt to the changing contexts of the enterprise.

This webinar will examine how project managers can successfully apply Agile to their projects in an enterprise context.

Learning Objectives:

• Why we struggle Agile in an Enterprise
• Mapping project controls to agile project metrics for improved project control and reporting than on plan driven projects: Scope, Schedule and Budget.
• Three approaches to creating a Gantt chart for an agile project
• How to handle external dependencies
• Nine principles for bringing a little bit of agile into any project

SPEAKER: Joseph Flahiff (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a project planning coach, speaker and trainer with 15 years of PM success. Also Certified in Six Sigma methods and a Certified Agile Scrum Master, Joseph has experience in a wide range of market verticals including Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government, and Small Business.

Live Webinar March 5th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: CollabNet

Building and maintaining a Product Backlog can be a time-consuming effort. Though the Product Owner has final say in the prioritization, a good product backlog is a result of a combined effort of the entire team – Product Owner, Scrum team, ScrumMaster and stakeholders.

Join Angela Druckman, (LinkedIn profile) Certified Scrum Instructor, in this webinar where she will discuss strategies on how to build and maintain a good product backlog.

She describes the overall concepts and techniques for backlog management and how each of the project contributors can contribute to its overall effectiveness.

You Will Learn:

• What a product backlog is and how to create product backlog items
• How to write good user stories
• How to estimate product backlog items
• How to groom the product backlog
• The importance of treating the product backlog as a living artifact

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Live Webinar March 2nd, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)
Presented by: Athens Kolias (LinkedIn profile)

Emotional Intelligence just could be the key to YOUR SUCCESS. It certainly has been for many other successful Project Managers.

• Learn how Emotional Intelligence in project management can reduce the chaos as the project progresses.
• Learn techniques to use in your projects that will increase your emotional awareness.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity. The webinar will be broadcast using VoIP and teleconference. If any participants dial in via teleconference, you must initiate the teleconference as well. Webinar recordings will not work if participants dial in and the teleconference call is not initiated by the host.

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For More Great Information on Emotional Intelligence …..

What is EQ & Why You Should Care

Downloadable Audio Course- Offered by Meloni Coaching Solutions
Duration 2.5 hours 2.5 Category C PDUs – $24.95 USD for 2.5 PDUs

Smart is Good, People Smart is Better!

Listen to the audio program What is EQ and Why You Should Care during your daily commute and learn why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is important and how to create a more motivated team through your understanding of EQ.

Get through the day in Peace not in Pieces! – M Meloni

Emotional Intelligence helps you drive effective leadership on your projects! Unlike IQ, EQ can be learned and enhanced adding strong positive results to your projects.

1. Learn the elements of emotional intelligence and WHY THEY MATTER
2. Assess YOUR emotional intelligence
3. Receive tips and techniques to GROW YOUR emotional intelligence NOW

Note: This is a 100% downloadable AUDIO program. It is eligible for 2.5 (Category C self-study) PDUs.

Reading Margaret Meloni’s book Emotional Intelligence: Stories from the Workplace would earn you an additional Category CPDU. The Kindle version is ONLY $1.99 USD! – an excellent value! You can download a Kindle reader for your PC or phone for FREE.

Presenter: Margaret Meloni (LinkedIn profile, @MargaretMeloni) spent over 18 years in Corporate America observing how individuals who learned to cope with conflict succeeded and recognized their full potential, while others became road blocked.

Margaret acted on her vision by founding Meloni Coaching Solutions, Inc. As a former Information Technology Executive, Margaret always knew her preference was for the people behind the technology. Now Margaret brings those beliefs to individuals from many professional backgrounds.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience (include the weblinks) and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar – March 1st 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Pillar Technology Group
NOTE: Use the link below to register as there may still be an issue with the link on the Pillar site

Can your team or stakeholders easily tell:

1. How your project is doing?
2. Will it be done on time?
3. What the pain points are?

Measuring the right things and displaying the measurements will communicate to the team and to stakeholders that these are the behaviors the organization wants to encourage.

Big Visible Charts (BVCs) can communicate information:

• Increasing team Effectiveness
• Provide required feedback to the team by making issues more visible
• Make status reporting more reliable And …
• Increase the confidence in the team as progress is shown

Telling people something is important is one thing “Measuring It” and “Displaying The Measurement” is another. – Matt VanVleet, Pillar

In this Webinar, Daryl will discuss the uses and benefits of Big Visible Charts (BVCs) when managing an agile project.

Presenter: Daryl Kulak (LinkedIn profile) author of Use Cases: Requirements in Context (2nd Edition). After a brief introduction to use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), it explains how use cases reduce the incidence of duplicate and inconsistent requirements, and how they facilitate the documentation process and communication among stakeholders. The book also highlights numerous currently available tools, including use case name filters, the context matrix, user interface requirements, and Daryl’s own “hierarchy killer.”

Pillar Technology Group cares about the community. Individual training costs are “VERY Reasonable” and the proceeds of the training go to charity inspired by the “Agile Manifesto” and many other foundational works in the industry. Check out their training page.

As Angelo Mazzocco, President of Pillar explains “We live in an economy where access to “free” or not for profit is becoming a part of our every day lives. It is in this spirit that we would like to launch the Pillar Training Series. It is our passion that we should not profit from the distribution of knowledge. So our courses will be unique. All proceeds generated from a course will be donated to charity. All work done in the course will be for a charity.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Live Webinar – February 28th, 2012 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU
Presenter: Journyx Inc.

Strategic partnerships and alliances have existed as long as there have been businesses. They can be as simple as having a mentor to as complex as creating a joint venture. They operate internally between departments as well as externally.

Statistics show 60% fail but having one is critical to career and business success.

Handshake Strategyâ„¢ provides an effective process for finding, choosing, and managing the right type of alliance for your success.

Presenter: Jan Triplett, Ph.D. CEO, Business Success Center (BSC) The federal Small Business Administration (SBA) honored Jan and the BSC as one of three five-star national programs. She is the author of Thinking Big, Staying Small: Communication Practices of Small Organizations, and she has just released, Easy to Be Green: A Guide for Small Enterprises. She has been profiled in the Austin Business Journal and Austin Woman. She is a guest blogger for the Business Bank of Texas and maintains her own blog.

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